Portable Health Administration

The Portable MHA is a concise, readable book that gives an overview of the information covered in a Master of Health Administration program. The material is presented in a fashion so that professionals, administrative academics, and graduate students would be able to read, understand and utilise the information. The text offers distinct benefits to a variety of users. Academic, professional and medical students will be given an understanding of the health care system in which they will have to practice. They will learn how organisations function, and the real role of leadership. Administrative academics, practising clinicians and others assuming management roles but lacking formal training in Health Administration, will be introduced to the language and principles of Health Administration. Graduate students in the field will have the opportunity to be introduced to it by a team of educators experienced in the instruction of a spectrum of students and "real world" consultation experience adding further relevance to their chapters. - Contains 16 in-depth chapters
- Has wide appeal to health/medical and life sciences audiences
- Possible textbook use for graduate programs invovled in Health Administration
- Can be used as part of an internal educational and orientation course for organizations

Environmental Issues: Health Care Systems, Politics and Policy, and Access1. Health Administration: Systems, Policy and Management2. How Politics Makes Health Policy3. Poverty and the Ethics of Equitable Access and Quality Critical Organization and Management Elements4. The Tough Work of Leadership5. Developing Networks to Deal with Complex Health Care Problems6. Management Information Systems for Clinicians: Design and Function7. Medical Care Quality: Double Track Thinking and Action8. Quality Care and Academic Medical Centers: the Need for Physician9. Listening to Stakeholders Input - Interviews, Focus Groups Surveys and Direct Observation10. Lessons Learned from Hospital Mergers Finance, Economics, and Insurance11. Its Not About the Money: Financing and Payment of Physician Services12. Understanding Health Insurance13. Implementing Cost Control in Healthcare14. Physicain Rewards in the Academic Medical Center The Future15. Design and Redesign of the Health Systems' Futures16. Need for Health Policy Education in the Medical Curriculum17. Healthy Communities: Past, Present, and Future